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Olu Fasan
Nigeria’s trade facilitation commitments are shallow. It…
Last week, I professed myself pleased that Nigeria ratified the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).…
The Trump doctrine will make the world poorer
Donald Trump, America’s new president, is a man of his word. He has shown conclusively that he will keep his…
Nigeria’s government of puritans and preachers needs…
Every government has a character, an orientation, which can be detected by looking at its leadership. Three things…
Obama leaves office this week with a historic but mixed…
This week, on Friday, 20 January, Barack Hussein Obama will hand over to Donald John Trump as president of the…
The 2017 Budget speech: Why Buhari’s economic ideas are…
President Buhari’s speech to the National Assembly last December on the 2017 budget was, for all intents and…
The world celebrates Nigerians, but the nation itself…
Nigeria, as everyone says, is full of talented people. Yet, according to comparative political scientists, this…
A new mega party? It’s all about mega egos and…
The 2019 general elections are still about two years away, yet the season of political machinations has started to…
Buhari must start his budget speech this week with an…
This week, on Wednesday 14 December, President Buhari will present his draft budget for 2017 to the National…
Two years of viewing Nigeria from abroad: My reflections
On 8 December 2014, two years ago this week, I made my debut as a columnist for this excellent newspaper. This week…
Buhari will miss Obama. He owes him a debt
It goes without saying that President Buhari’s government and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC),…
Can globalisation survive the populist revolts?
Just over a decade ago, in 2002, Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, published his popular book,…
The Trumpian revolution that shocks America and the…
Like Brexit in Britain, the election of a new US president last week has sent shockwaves around the world. On June…